A couple weeks ago, a couple weeks before his sixteenth birthday, the Younger told me that he’s recently been on a “nostalgia kick.”
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Liner Notes: Josie
“How does that Simul-sync function?” In the early ’80s, I got my hands on my first multi-track recorder: a Teac 4-channel reel-to-reel tape recorder.
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Lumpdates: the complete collection
As I wrote in Good luck and cancer, I posted a series of updates on Facebook, documenting my whirlwind encounter with cancer. I’ve collected them here, just for simplicity’s sake.
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Good luck and cancer
Photo by Alois Komenda on Unsplash I seem to be reaching the end of a mercifully brief trip to Cancer Town.
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Positively Ehrenreich: Bright-Sided (Part I, perhaps) [From the Archives]
When The Secret came out in 2006, I had already been dabbling in self-help lore. I was mainly interested in time management; my family and I had been through a lot of changes recently (moving, job changes, new kids), and I was trying to find strategies to make myself feel less overwhelmed. But since time management, at least in the many forms I found it, comes packaged with all the other self-help paraphernalia of goal setting and positive thinking, I had already come across variants of The Secret and its focus, the “scientific” Law of Attraction.
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Making a difference, sometimes
Photo by Rubén Rodriguez on Unsplash In these times of isolation and distance, it’s easy to lose sight of what my work means. But in the past two days, I received two emails that have brought that into focus.
It felt good.
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preramble
preramble (pree-ram-buhl, pree-ram-), noun. an aimless, lengthy, and digressive introduction or introductory statement, commonly found at the beginning of a recipe on a recipe blog.
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Schadenfreudian
schadenfreudian (shahd-n-froi-dee-uhn), adj. of, or relating to, the pleasure derived from others’ misfortunes, especially those revealing subconscious or otherwise hidden sexual desires or practices. Ex.: I felt a schadenfreudian delight at Jerry Fallwell, Jr.’s resignation from Liberty University.
